HMS By the Numbers

• Total faculty: 12,202
• Tenured and tenure-track faculty on the HMS campus in 11 preclinical departments: 193
• Voting faculty on campus and at affiliates: 6,487
• Full-time faculty on campus and at affiliates: 10,175
• Nobel Prizes (cumulative) in Medicine or Physiology, Peace: 10 prizes, 16 recipients
• National Academy of Medicine members (current): 165
• National Academy of Sciences members (current): 85
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (current): 40
  • Investigators: 36
  • Faculty Scholars: 3
  • Professor: 1
• Total MD students: 702
• Total PhD students: 888 (886 HMS, 2 HSDM)
• MD-PhD students: 192: basic sciences 164, social sciences 28 (total included in MD and PhD counts)
• Total DMD students: 142
• Total master's students: 457 (410 HMS, 47 HSDM)
• Total DMSc students: 36
• Trainees: (residents and postdoctoral fellows): 8,839

Students

Entering MD students, 2021

• MD (includes 16 MD–PhD students): 164
• Applicants: 8,002
• Admitted: 222 (2.8%)
• Men: 79 (48%)
• Women: 83 (51%)
• Different identity: 2 (>1%)
• Underrepresented in medicine (African American, Native American, Hispanic, Mexican American): 38 (23%)
• Asian: 58 (35%)

Additional entering students, 2021

• PhD: 133
• DMD: 35
• Master's: 284 (270 HMS, 14 HSDM)
• DMSc: 11
• Additional joint-degree programs: MD-MAD, MD-MMSc, MD-MBA, MD-MPH, MD-MPP
• Medical school living alumni: 10,822 (MD and master's)

As of September 2021

MD Financial Aid (Fiscal Year 2020)

• Average scholarship: $54,129
• Students receiving financial aid (excluding MD–PhD students): 76%
• (2019-20) Students graduating with loans: 110
• (2019-20) Average loan debt at graduation: $99,376
• Range of debt (Class of 2020): $2,394–$282,144

Tuition and Fees (2019–2020)

• Tuition: $63,400
• Fees: $4,978

Tuition and Fees (2020–2021)

• Tuition: $64,984
• Fees: $5,234

As of June 2020